What’s amazing is the HIMYM stole an idea my grandmother invented like 50 years ago and didn’t even credit her.

Every time I hear someone complain about government waste or lazy government employees, I think “you, good sir, have clearly never worked for a corporation in the private sector.”

Why is “don’t accept strange files from strangers” not the “don’t take accept candy from strangers” for the modern times? You’d have to be an idiot to keep this feature turned on if you’re around people and devices you don’t know. I’m probably only average tech-savvy and even I know that.

My dad [a librarian] refused me Clan of the Cave Bear. I read it to spite him, and it was bad. It’s such a bad book! People should avoid that book because of the bad writing, not because of the sex parts! Kids get such better teenage rebellion reading options these days.

I thought this was going to be someone getting arrested for violating water usage rules under drought conditions.  But no, just regular profiling/racism.  

I’m hoping it’s counterproductive. Maybe we can tap into innate teenage rebellion by saying “You definitely can’t read this book because it has naughty bits and your parents don’t want you to know” to really inspire them to take up literature. [This worked on me.]

I wore my “Everybody Loves Someone Who Has Had An Abortion” shirt from the National Network of Abortion Funds today, and got two women at the coffee shop to sign up right there to become recurring members.  I don’t have a wide social network, but advertising that we care about these things does make a difference.

They acknowledge them on their website, and have a lot of their info on the site available in Spanish, so I agree, this criticism is a hard sell for me.

Sure, if they’re not directly solving the problem, they shouldn’t be protesting. Is that the take-away here? They’re not changing the minds of the Supreme Court, so their protesting is worthless?

That’s a feature, not a bug.  If you’re a Republican, democracy is not the end goal.

TURN. OFF. LOCATIONS. ON. YOUR. PHONE.

You’re missing my point [again]. It’s not about Williamson as a person; it’s that taking someone who has a very minimal platform as an indication of they level of support this person for a candidate is telling.

I do not like it when politicians talk about, endorse, or affiliate themselves with religion. Ew. It’s like genitals- whatever you do/have in the privacy of your own home/church is up to you, but don’t expect me to be interested. It’s way more common with Republicans but Democrats do it too.

She could be the most amazing speaker, but it doesn’t make her less of a D-list celebrity in the political world.

Isn’t Marianne Williamson the political equivalent of some 90s band playing at the county fair?  They had that one song everybody kind of knows, and was the biggest name they could book?

Or going to some unlicensed butcher to bleed out or die of infection later.

Given that plenty of people are working hard to restrict access to abortion pills, I’m not sure we’re ready to retire the back-alley abortion imagery just yet. And I haven’t tried to order them, but I have trouble imaging that just anyone (with no money, or no mailing address, or no prescription, or under 18, or…

Highsmith on Vic and the snails: “They were quite considerate of each other as to which had the burden of egg-laying- a twenty-four hour procedure at least... That was true love, Vic thought, even if they were only gastropoda.”

Okay, so on what ridiculous grounds are they denying coverage? The title doesn’t match the article.

Biden had “politicized” the process